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SUMMARY:Unlocking Community through Empowering Creativity: spring fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Date/ Time: Tuesday\, May 12th from 6-8pm\, Speaking portion starts at 6:30pm\nLocation: Shara Porter Designs at 338 Elm Street\, Dartmouth\, MA\nAdmission is $50. (This event is limited to 50 guests and tickets sell fast.) \n \n  \n  \nEach spring\, DATMA holds a small fundraiser to help raise money for an upcoming public art project. This unique event gathers guests to focus on a conversation topic stirring on a local level and in the broader art world. This year’s topic surrounds the growing interest in creating community through salon-style gatherings and the yearning for togetherness. But what does that mean\, what does that look like\, and how can one person build a community? \nJoin us to listen and learn from three people who have built platforms offer resources\, inspiration\, and most importantly\, a place to connect- all accomplished without the engine of an institution behind them. Michael Rose\, founder and content creator for New England Art News\, Andy Anello founder and content creator for New Moon Dance Party\, and Zoe “Chilly Dog” Benza\, a contributing content creator for New Moon Dance Party and DJ in the PVD area. \nThank you to local artist\, Shara Porter\, our host for this year’s event at her shop in Dartmouth. This is a ticketed event that includes complimentary beer & spring wines curated by Anthi. Snacks include tasty bites from Scuttlebutt\, one of our favorite spots around. \n  \nAbout our speakers:\nMichael Rose is a gallerist and writer based in Providence\, Rhode Island. Since 2014\, he has served as the gallery manager at the historic Providence Art Club\, where he oversees a complex exhibition schedule spread across three unique galleries. In addition to his gallery work\, Michael curates\, juries\, and judges exhibitions around the region. An active art writer\, Michael authored the popular weekly Inside Art column for local news site GoLocalProv.com from 2021-2025. In 2024\, he founded New England Art News\, a blog and weekly resource newsletter for regional artists with over 2\,300 subscribers. In 2026\, he was nominated by Governor Daniel McKee and confirmed by the Rhode Island Senate to serve on the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts\, the state’s art agency. Michael earned his BA in Art History at Providence College and a Graduate Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts at New York University.  Follow Michael on Instagram @newenglandartnews and for weekly updates through Substack at www.newenglandartnews.substack.com \nAndy Anello has a background as a visual artist\, performance artist\, DJ\, and cultural organizer. He founded New Moon Dance Party in 2017 to provide a platform for the organization and promotion of radically inclusive underground dance music events in New Bedford\, MA. For five years\, starting in 2020\, Andy and New Moon hosted a party called BodyBodyBody on the first Saturday of every month at the Co-Creative Center in New Bedford. \nNew Moon has also organized dozens of events at venues including Hatch Street Artist Studios\, Umass Dartmouth Star Store\, Riverside Park\, Overhead Arts\, Hippo\, Ropeworks\, Yoga On Union\, and School of Yoga New Bedford among others. New Moon continues to host a monthly party at The Gallery Bar in the North End of New Bedford\, and a yearly roller disco event at Buttonwood Park. Andy is committed to the idea of the dance floor as a transformative space and believes that dance should be free and accessible to all people. \nIn addition to creating community-focused dance events\, Andy also organized a series of quarterly performance art forums in New Bedford called Lunar Teeth from 2014-2019. As a visual artist\, Andy has exhibited work at Sara Meltzer Gallery in NYC\, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn\, New Bedford Art Museum\, Framingham Art Museum\, and Gallery Ehva in Provincetown among others. Andy holds an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College\, a BA from Eugene Lang College\, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. He currently works full time as a media producer at Brown University. Follow the New Moon Dance Party social media: https://www.instagram.com/newmoondanceparty/ \nZoe “Chilly Dog” Benza is a local vinyl DJ\, playing around the South Shore and Rhode Island area. She grew up in Kingston\, Ma with supportive local communities such as the boy scouts\, church\, and other volunteer organizations. Now residing in Taunton\, she has sought out and joined groups with an ethos of planning intentional spaces where dance music is the shared language that transcends differences. She loves the idea of capturing magic in a physical totem\, such as a polaroid or vinyl record\, and loves even more sharing that magic with others. Follow Zoe at @DJChillyDog on Instagram.com/DJChillyDog. \n 
URL:https://datma.org/event/unlockingcommunityfundraiser/
LOCATION:Shara Porter Designs\, 338 Elm Street\, Dartmouth\, MA\, 02748
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